03167nam 2200613Ia 450 991078533680332120200520144314.01-4696-0624-00-8078-9567-9(CKB)2670000000058447(EBL)605906(OCoLC)676696379(SSID)ssj0000412286(PQKBManifestationID)11306240(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412286(PQKBWorkID)10366643(PQKB)11025726(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245485(MdBmJHUP)muse23343(Au-PeEL)EBL605906(CaPaEBR)ebr10425406(CaONFJC)MIL930920(MiAaPQ)EBC605906(EXLCZ)99267000000005844720100402d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt the precipice[electronic resource] Americans north and south during the secession crisis /Shearer Davis BowmanChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (390 p.)Littlefield history of the Civil War eraDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-2136-3 0-8078-3392-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction and overview -- Slaveholders and slaves, state's rights and revolution -- Honor and degradation : section, race, and gender -- The second party system and its legacy : the careers of John Bell, John C. Breckinridge, Howell Cobb, Stephen A. Douglas, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren -- Jefferson Davis, Horace L. Kent, and the old south -- Abraham Lincoln, Henry Waller, and the free-labor north -- Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard and Sojourner Truth : faith, race, and gender -- President Buchanan, the Crittenden Compromise, President Lincoln, and Fort Sumter.Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession period. He examines the lives and thoughts of key figures and provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both sections thought about themselves and the worlds in which they lived, and how their thoughts informed their actions during this time. Both sides glorified the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, yet they interpreted those sacred documents in markedly different ways and held very different notions of what constituted "American" values.Littlefield history of the Civil War era.SecessionUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and government1849-1861United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesSecessionHistory.973.7/11Bowman Shearer Davis1520417MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785336803321At the precipice3758980UNINA